通用商务中级03:29会议沟通

Got a Meeting? Take a Walk

要开会?边走边谈吧

商业创新专家尼罗弗·麦钱特提出一个简单的职场建议:把一对一会议改成「散步会议」。她用亲身经历说明,走出会议室不仅有益健康,还能激发跳出框框的思考。演讲短小精悍,含大量地道商务表达。

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台词(22 句)

00:13

What you're doing, right now, at this very moment, is killing you.

你此时此刻正在做的事情,正在悄悄害死你。

00:20

More than cars or the Internet or even that little mobile device we keep talking about, the technology you're using the most almost every day is this, your tush.

比汽车、互联网,甚至比我们天天挂在嘴边的那个小小移动设备更甚——你几乎每天用得最多的「技术」,其实是你的臀部(久坐)。

00:32

Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day, which is more than we're sleeping, at 7.7 hours.

如今人们每天要坐 9.3 个小时,比我们 7.7 小时的睡眠时间还要长。

00:38

Sitting is so incredibly prevalent, we don't even question how much we're doing it, and because everyone else is doing it, it doesn't even occur to us that it's not okay.

久坐已经普遍到我们根本不去追问自己坐了多久;因为人人都这样,我们甚至意识不到这有什么不对。

00:48

In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.

从这个意义上说,久坐已经成了我们这一代人的「吸烟」。

00:53

Of course there's health consequences to this, scary ones, besides the waist.

当然,除了腰围问题,久坐还会带来可怕的健康后果。

01:00

Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are directly tied to our lack of physical activity, ten percent in fact, on both of those.

乳腺癌、结肠癌等疾病与缺乏运动直接相关——事实上,两者的关联比例都达到了 10%。

01:09

Six percent for heart disease, seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of.

心脏病是 6%,二型糖尿病是 7%——我父亲正是死于二型糖尿病。

01:15

Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more, but if you're anything like me, it won't.

这些数据本该说服我们每个人多站起来动一动,但如果你和我一样,光看数据是不会行动的。

01:21

What did get me moving was a social interaction. Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn't manage to fit me in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said, "I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"

真正让我动起来的是一次社交互动。有人约我开会,却排不进常规的会议室日程,便说:「我明天得去遛狗,你能一起来吗?」

01:34

It seemed kind of odd to do, and actually, that first meeting, I remember thinking, "I have to be the one to ask the next question,"

这听起来有点奇怪。第一次这样开会时,我记得自己在想:「下一个问题必须由我来问,」

01:40

because I knew I was going to huff and puff during this conversation.

因为我知道聊着聊着我就会气喘吁吁。

01:45

And yet, I've taken that idea and made it my own. So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings, I ask people to go on a walking meeting, to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week.

但后来我把这个点子变成了自己的习惯。我不再去咖啡馆或日光灯下的会议室开会,而是约人进行「散步会议」,每周步行足足 20 到 30 英里。

01:59

It's changed my life. But before that, what actually happened was, I used to think about it as, you could take care of your health, or you could take care of obligations,

这改变了我的人生。而在那之前,我一直是这样想的:你要么照顾健康,要么履行职责,

02:10

and one always came at the cost of the other. So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later, I've learned a few things.

而且二者总是此消彼长。如今,开过几百场「散步会议」之后,我学到了几件事。

02:18

First, there's this amazing thing about actually getting out of the box that leads to out-of-the-box thinking.

第一,真正「走出盒子」(走出会议室)有种奇妙的力量,能带来跳出框框的思考。

02:25

Whether it's nature or the exercise itself, it certainly works. And second, and probably the more reflective one, is just about how much each of us can hold problems in opposition

无论是大自然还是运动本身的作用,它确实有效。第二点也许更发人深省:我们总是习惯把问题对立起来看,

02:37

when they're really not that way. And if we're going to solve problems and look at the world really differently, whether it's in governance or business or environmental issues, job creation, maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems

但它们其实并非非此即彼。如果我们要解决问题、用全新的眼光看世界——无论是治理、商业、环境议题还是创造就业——也许可以想想如何重新表述这些问题,

02:50

as having both things be true. Because it was when that happened with this walk-and-talk idea that things became doable and sustainable and viable.

让两件事同时成立。正是当「边走边谈」做到了这一点,事情才变得可行、可持续、有生命力。

02:59

So I started this talk talking about the tush, so I'll end with the bottom line, which is, walk and talk.

我用「臀部」开启了这场演讲,那就用「底线」来收尾吧:边走边谈。

03:07

Walk the talk. You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking, and in the way that you do, you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.

说到做到。你会惊讶于新鲜空气如何催生新鲜想法;这样做,你会为生活带来一整套全新的点子。

03:17

Thank you.

谢谢大家。